Vol. 81 No. 13
THE County TIMES-NEWS
^ Northampton County's Only Advertising and News Medium
THE ROANOKE-CHOWAN TIMES — Established 1892
THURSDAY, MARCH 30, 1972
☆ THE NORTHAMPTON COUNTY NEWS — Established 1926
lOc Per Copy Rich Square, N. C. Two Sections
30 Pages
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HOLLY AND MARTHA BOWLES, the
campaigning daughters of Democratic
Gubernatorial Candidate Skipper Bowles, open
their tour of Northampton County with a formal
ribbon cutting at the county's campaign
headquarters in Jackson. Looking on in a crowd
of approximately 60 people on hand to kick things
off, the ladies made four stops in Northampton
and two in Hertford on this trip through the
Roanoke-Chowan Area.
Three Days Left To Register
Registrars, Judges Named
JACKSON — Northampton
County Board of Elections
chairman, R. W. (Scoopy)
Grant, reports approximately
825 new 18 to 20-year-old
voters have registered and
only three days remain before
the books close prior to the
Exchangettes Plan
‘Project Life' Show
May 6 primary.
County registration now
totals approximately 12,700,
Grant stated.
Books will close for
processing April 7 at 5 p.m.
and anyone who registers
after that date will not be
eligible to vote in the
upcoming primary, but may
vote in later elections.
MURFREESBORO — The
Murfreesboro Exchangettc
Clut^wd tlio
Students Have
Week For Easter
JACKSON — Students and
teachers in Northampton
County have begun a week’s
Easter vacation.
All county public schools
and Northeast Academy at
Lasker closed Thursday
(today) and will not reopen
until Thursday, April 6.
Easter Monday will be a
holiday for all county
employees with courthouse
offices closed on that day.
Rich Square Town Clerk
Mrs, Gladys Futrell has
reported the town office will
be closed on Easter Monday,
with Monday’s garbage
pickup to be made on
Tuesday, April 4.
Banks in the county and
most businesses will also take
the Easter Monday holiday.
As with most holiday
seasons there will be many
vacationers and travelers on
the roads. North Carolina will
count its highway toll for this
holiday, which opens the
spring travel season, from 6
p.m. Friday, March 31,
through midnight Monday,
April 3, a 78-hour period.
Last year in a similar period
16 persons were killed and 606
injured in 1,137 accidents.
The all-time holiday record
was set over the Easter
weekend in 1968 with the loss
of 43 persons on the highway.
Show Begin” apropo when
they began working on their
j^OM.iiig‘'ta!-?rd ai.u variety,
w, scheduled for Thursday,
rtpril 13, at Chowan College,
7:30 p.m. The excitement
grew as each Exchangette
added their “Talent
Discovery” to the list.
158 Entries, $800 Net
At Canway Tractor Pull
CONWAY — One hundred
and fifty-six regular entries
, and two “grudge match”
Among contestants will be entries in the Fourth
tap dancing, soloist, duets,
quartets, folk singers, country
and western, classical, a drill
team, comic skits, jazz and
rock groups — the list seemed
endless and the variety
exceptional. Entrants are
from Bertie, Hertford, North
ampton and Halifax Counties.
Two Divisions
Contestants will be
competing in two divisions,
young folks below high school
and the other high school,
college and adults. There will
be cash prizes for the first
and second place winners.
This will be the club’s last
project of the 1971-72 year
ending in May. The “Project
Life” campaign is what
promoted this talent and
variety program. The club
wished to be a part in this area
wide project helping toward
the training and medical
expenses of the kidney
machine for 16-year-old
Kirwin Vann of Conway.
Not In Court
JACKSON — Raymond E.
Wheeler of Rich Square
reports he is not the Raymond
Wheeler who was in District
Court last week on a charge of
assault with a deadly weapon.
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Semiannual Tractor Pulling
Contest made for a weekend of
competition and enjoyment
for both the participants and
spectators.
According to Bobby
Bridgers, Conway Fire Chief,
more than $800 was raised
between actual contest entry
fees, the concession stand and
additional donations. This
money will be spent on paying
off a $6,000 debt incurred when
the town fire truck was
repaired.
The tractors in the contest
were in five classes; Class A,
up to 5,000 lbs.; Class B, 5,001-
7,000 lbs.; Class C, 7,001-9,000
lbs.; Class D, 9,001-12,000 lbs.;
and Class E, 12,001-15,000 Ibs^
All were stock.
Class A
There were 16 entries in this
class with Mitchell Whitehurst
of Gates winning with a 117
foot, Hve and one-half inch
pull.
Class B
Percy Barns of Gates won
this class with a pull of 109 feet
IOV2 inches. There were eight
entries in this class.
Class C
With 28 entries here, Roy
Harrell of Gates won with a
pull of 110 feet and nine and
one-fourth inch.
Class D
This class drew the most
(See TRACTOR, Page 10)
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4-Counfy Program
OEO Approves $927,633
For CADA Development
WASHINGTON — The
Office of Economic
Opportunity has approved a
grant of $927,633 to the
Choanoke Area Development
Association, Murfreesboro, to
provide additional funding for
family development programs
in Hertford, Halifax, North
ampton and Bertie Counties, it
was announced today (March
27) by First District
Congressman Walter B.
Jones.
Congressman Jones, who
received word of the grant
March 24, was pleased to hear
of grant approval from OEO
Director Philip V. Sanchez
which provides operating
funds for the Roanoke-Chowan
area program for one year.
Jones Delighted
“I am delighted that these
funds have finally become
available,” Jones said. “We
have been working on this
12-15 Years Given In Superior
Court For Monsloughfer Case
JACKSON — Judge Perry
Martin imposed a 12 to 15-year
prison term on a Rich Square
man and placed a Potecasi
teen-ager on probation for two
years during the first two days
of Superior Court in
Northampton County this
week.
The defendant, Robert Sam
Johnson, 51, charged with first
degree murder, pleaded guilty
to the lesser charge of
voluntary manslaughter. He
was charged in connection
with the killing of Floyd
Smith, also of Rich Square,
December 4. Smith was
Registration books are open
in the county courthouse from
8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday,
Wednesday and Friday.
Grant explained this week
that any person 18 years of age
by the November 8 general
election can register now and
vote in the primary.
Grant released the following
(See DAYS, Page 10)
Ingram
To Visit
Friday
JACKSON — John Ingram,
candidate for commissioner of
insurance, will be in
Northampton County
tomorrow and will be at the
courthouse here at 2:15 p.m.
Ingram is a longtime
advocate of insuring young
people according to their
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age alone. ‘This is a very
unfair practice and very
costly to many young drivers
who deserve lesser insurance
rates for their safe driving,”
Ingram has said.
stabbed to death.
The teen-ager, Frederick
Walden, 18, was handed a sbc-
month suspended sentence
and placed on probation for a
period of two years. He
pleaded no contest to the
assault with a deadly weapon
charge and was ordered to pay
$200 in restitutions to the
prosecuting witness, Gernie
Edwards, for medical
expenses. He was also ordered
to stay away from the
premises of Alphonzo
Jefferson in Potecasi for the
period of his probation.
Other cases and their
dispositions:
Randolph Butcher of Gaston
was acquitted on two counts of
assault with a deadly weapon.
He was charged with the
November 25 knifing of
Thomas Robinson and Donald
Garris at Garner’s Piccolo
Joint.
Archie Lee Gatling and
Emmitt Junious Mayo Jr.,
both of Garysburg, were
handed six months suspended
for one year for possession of
illegal whiskey,
transportation of nontax-paid
whiskey and possession of
equipment used in
manufacture of whiskey.
Both were fined :$50 and
cc;:ls* .n each of i/.i; three
cases.
Both were ordered not to
operate a motor vehicle for 18
months and their vehicles
ordered confiscated.
Jerry Lewis Demory of
Seaboard was given a 12-
month suspended sentence for
trespass and violation of a
suspended sentence.
He was placed on probation
for three years and fined $250
and costs and ordered to
remain gainfully employed for
the period of probation.
Willie J. Risper of
Woodland, charged with
speeding 100 mph in a 55 zone,
was fined $100 and costs on a
guilty plea to 70 in a 55.
Daniel Boone of Route 1,
Garysburg, received a 90-day
suspended sentence and fined
$150 and costs for driving
under the influence.
Charles E. Alexander, an
inmate at Odom Correctional
Institute, was given a six-
month sentence in prison in
addition to the term he is
presently serving. He pleaded
guilty to the escape charges.
Alphonzo Jefferson of
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program for quite some time
along with Congressman L. H.
Fountain of the Second
Congressional District and are
happy with the results we
have accomplished in this
particular area.”
Congressman Jones
remarked that the grant “will
indeed help improve the
economic status of the
deprived citizens of this
area.”
Near Million
This grant of just under a
million dollars is for one year.
The project, subcontracted to
RCA, is located in Rich
Square. The program is
designed to prepare migrant
and seasonal farm workers
and their families for
economic upgrading.
Goals of the program are to
secure jobs for a minimum of
.50 farm worker heads of
households in nonagricultural
jobs, to reduce educational
and cultural deficiencies and
to encourage business and
industry to hire trained
seasonal farm workers..
Four Counties
Choanoke Association and
RCA operate nonresidential
training centers in the four
counties, the residential
training center at Rich Square
and on-the-job training and
job placement.
John W. Taylor is executive .
director of the Choanoke Are^
Development, Inc.
Food Stamps Maf
April 4, 5, And 6
JACKSON — Northampton
County Social Services
D“puriment chau lii.tn, Jltivies
P. Clark, has announced that
there will be staggered
mailing of food stamp
redemption forms next week.
One-third will be mailed out
April 4, one-third April 5 and
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A NEW MANUFACTURING COMPANY coming
to Woodland got things rolling earlier this month
with a visit to the area by its leaders to make final
plans. Named Dabor, Inc., of Richmond, the
high-style shirt company will begin operations
shortly. Above, William A. Dascher, president
(third from right), and Bill Howell, Northampton
Industrial Relations Commission (third from
left), model the type product to be made. Others
are Sidney Berz, secretary-treasurer and
chairman of the board; Earl Taylor, vice
president and general manager; Howell;
Dascher; Joe Motzno, Woodland department
store owner; and Clifton Parker, Bank of
Woodland.
one-third April 6.
“The reason
staggered mailing,” CTTTT’
reported, “is to assist both
those receiving the stamp
assistance and the banks
cashing them as well.”
With the banks not opening
until April 3 this month it is
expected that there will be
large crowds forming doing
their routine monthly
banking. This would include
the cashing of government
checks, retirement checks,
veterans checks, allotment
checks and other related
banking activities.
“If the better than 4,400
county people receiving food
stamp assistance were to also
join in the crowds there would
be much confusion and
waiting in lines and not too
many satisfied customers. It
is because of this we are using
the staggered mailing this
month,” Clark concluded.
Last week some changes
were reported in the Food
Stamp Program. Another
change taking effect this
month refersHo the resources
clause.
Under this new law any
family or household up to 10
persons (with no one age 60 or
over) could net up to $706
monthly and have limit on
other resources at $1,500.
Other resources include cash
on hand, bank accounts, U.S.
Savings Bonds, stocks, other
bonds and certain real or
personal property.
Now, if there is a member of
the household over age 60 the
resources limit goes to $3,000.
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ONE OF 158 TRACTOR PULL ENTRIES goes through its
paces at the Fourth Semiannual Conway Tractor Pulling
Contest Saturday and Sunday. Sponsored by the Conway
Volunteer Fire Department the contest netted approximately
$800 which will go toward paying a $6,000 debt on rebuilding
the town's fire truck.
LIEUTENANTGOVERNOR CANDIDATE Jim Hunt meets with the staff of
the Register of Deeds while on a visit in Northampton County last week.
Staff members are (from left) Margaret L. Aston, Phyllis C. Daniel and
Janey P. Ellen. Hunt spent the morning in the county meeting voters in
several locations.